Data visualization

Course objectives

Acquiring the ability to create effective, transparent and aesthetic data visualizations.

Benefits

Thanks to the training, the participant will:

• Understand the laws governing the perception of the human eye
• They will learn the principles of creating good data visualizations
• He will be able to choose the right chart for the content he wants to present
• It will become immune to data manipulation on visualizations

Training scope

• Characteristics of good data visualization
  • the specificity of human image perception and its impact on the readability of the chart
  • review of inspiring visualizations
• Good practices in creating charts
  • main principles of data visualization
  • Tufte’s principles
• Basic types of charts and their applications
  • selecting the type of chart for the information provided
  • role and application of individual chart elements
  • rules for selecting a color scale in the chart
• Advanced ways of data visualization
  • maps
  • animations
  • graphs
  • violin charts
  • other types of charts
• Typical manipulations in data visualizations and ways to defend against them
• Overview of data visualization tools
  • ad hoc charting tools
  • BI systems
  • using programming languages to generate graphs
• Design a dashboard – data visualization workshop

Audience

Managers and professionals whose work involves reading data or presenting data to others.